Most societies have laws. But for ordinary citizen, there's no law - there's just cops. They are underfunded and stretched thin, and corrupt from the top. So it makes more sense for them to go for the cases and calls that are safer, potentially more lucrative, or increase their influence with the right people. Police subcons - freelance street agents - get allocated the calls of immediate violence via the app. It's the crowdsourcing of the right to use (lethal) force. Sometimes it backfires, and subcons show up to scavenge, or profit from killing the surviving party.
City police can patrol any are of the city (but will they?...). Corporate police
should only patrol the corporate facilities. Corporate cops are usually better equipped and have full
Trauma Team coverage. Many municipalities outsource police service to private contractors.
Overpopulation and scarcity led to skyrocketing crime rates. Civilian justice codes had to adapt.
Self defense is more of a life style than legal term, but if you have to know, it's defined as
any instance in which the assailant can show just cause that their life, or the life of another party was threatened, in circumstances where a duly appointed officer of the law could not be summoned, or where it was impossible to restrain the inured party by any other means.
The punishment for criminal actions are swift, certain, and draconian. The simplest is personality adjustment via implant that prevent committing this crime ever again. Adjustments often have nasty side effects (eg terror of money based on anti-robbery adjustment). Exile implants cause excruciating pain if the offender enters the legally defined limits. Repeating offences just add new geotags to the implant. Exile and personality adjustment are for lesser crimes. Major crimes land you a mandatory prison term of 5 to 10 years. Death penalty is standard for murder cases.
Prisons are overcrowded and deadly. It's not about rehabilitation anymore, it's about trying to keep the streets clean of the absolute worst who cannot be sentenced to death just yet.
Bounty hunting is good business, there are agencies where you can join up as a freelancer, download an app and go get the nearest target.
most frequently searched offences and punishments:
| Assault |
personality adjustment or 2-7 months in jail |
| Assault with deadly force |
2-7 years in jail |
| conspiracy |
exile or 2-7 years in prison |
| counterfeiting and forgery |
6-15 years in prison |
| extortion or blackmail |
6-15 years in prison |
| homicide |
death |
| accidental murder w/o premeditation |
11-20 years in prison, braindance, personality alteration |
| murder in self defense, preventing major crime |
no punishment |
| kidnapping or false imprisonment |
11-20 years in prison, braindance, personality alteration |
| Larceny, theft, or robbery |
varies by severity - exile, prison 11-20 years, personality alteration |
| Malicious mischief, vandalism |
exile, jail 1-6 months |
| Rape |
prison 6-15 years, personality alteration |
| resisting arrest, obstruction of justice |
exile, braindance, jail 2-7 weeks |
| riot or unlawful assembly |
exile, jail 2-7 days |
| trespassing |
jail 1-6 days |
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